The "situational" barriers to the participation were most prevalent (need to escort the care recipient to medical visits, cost of transportation, lack of time due to caregiving tasks, or professional activity).
We decided to base our efforts in Kenya as we can create the most impact where the most prevalent need exists and Kenya is home to some of the biggest slums in the world.
Of the 20 most prevalent need items, 50% related to patients' psychological or emotional needs and 45% to medical communication or information.
Table 5 shows that those reporting their oral health as fair or poor, and those that perceived a need for dental treatment, were 4.6 (95% CI=3.7-5.7 CI=3.7-5.7and 4.5 (95% CI=3.4-6.1, P=0.001) times more likely thandtheir counterparts, respectively, to require restorative treatment, the most prevalent needed treatment found in the sample.
With most people requiring restorative and preventive care, these findings reflect those of Quiñonez and Locker (2007) [ 14], who found that 26% of the Canadian adult population self-reported having a cost-prohibitive (i.e. unmet) dental need, with fillings and preventive procedures (cleanings and check-ups) being the most prevalent unaffordable needs.
Actuarial tools ideally will provide a valid, dynamic assessment of an offender's overall risk/need level, and will identify their most prevalent criminogenic needs.
Results: The most prevalent unmet needs were improving memory or problem-solving skills (51.9%), increasing income (50.5%), and improving job skills (46.3%).
A convenience sample of 17 haematological cancer survivors (consent rate 41%) completed a semi-structured interview (average length 26 minutes) assessing their most prevalent unmet needs.
The three most prevalent moderate/high needs ranged from 15 to 22% in the symptom domain and 10 30% in the financial domain.
One of the most prevalent unmet needs in survivors is for help with fear of cancer recurrence (FCR), defined as the fear that cancer could return or progress in the same place or another part of the body [ 4].
Fifty per cent of the most prevalent moderate/high need items related to the psychological or emotional domain and 45% related to medical communication/informational domain.
